Before the day was out, ANZ cancelled all its advertising deals with News Ltd's papers and other outlets.

I can confirm ANZ pulled all of its advertising from News Limited, including Foxtel and News websites such as MySpace...Our advertising with New[s] Limited is worth $4 to 5 million and accounts for about 10 per cent of ANZ's advertising budget.

Luke McIlveen insists that his story was correct when he filed it, but when he spoke to 2UE, it seemed he thought the ANZ building was a call centre too.

Look, my understanding is that, that institution we photographed the other day, it's on the front page of today's paper, is a mixture of both call operators and data processing workers. Now we've confirmed that here.

McIlveen was still in India when we asked him about that interview and his recollection of what he said was hazy.

I think you'll find I said, as we understood it at the time, we did think calls were being taken there...Well, again, it's all down to semantics. In no way was I suggesting the building was definitely a call centre. At that point it was a running story and investigations were still underway.

— Statement from Luke McIlveen to Media Watch

Maybe it's the subcontinental heat, but we don't think the ANZ thinks it's just "semantics".

And with The Tele's editor calling it a "serious error" we'd say that the investigation is definitely over.

Prosecuting for contempt when the media prejudice a jury is one thing.

Front Page - Bad Line For Bangalore

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<q>Where our jobs went
The Indian call centres undercutting our workers
Special Report
By Luke McIlveen in Bangalore, India
This is just one of the call centres at which our major banks are paying less than $100 a week for Indians to do the jobs once held by Australians. At the ANZ headquarters in Bangalore, 1300 employees handle the accounts of Australian customers.
<cite>&#8212; The Daily Telegraph, Where Our Jobs Went, 10th October, 2006</cite></q>
The reporter is Luke McIlveen.
But the claims of an ANZ call centre in Bangalore are wrong.